Kristina Pahor de Maiti Tekavčič, PhD

Kristina Pahor de Maiti Tekavčič is a linguist utilizing discourse analysis, pragmatics, corpus linguistics and various digital methods to explore the descriptive and constitutive nature of language. She is particularly interested in methodological and discourse analytical approaches to figurative language use. Currently, she is preparing her PhD thesis on the topic of the argumentative power of metaphors in socially unacceptable discourse in digitally mediated communication.

In addition, her activities include developing training materials to promote corpus linguistics research methods in the Social Sciences and Humanities. She puts her enthusiasm for digital humanities into action also by participating in two CLARIN Initiatives: Resource Families and Tour de CLARIN, which are aimed at enhancing the visibility of digital language resources and tools, encouraging their reuse, and fostering collaboration among researchers in digital humanities.

Areas of research:

• Discourse analysis, Pragmatics
• Corpus linguistics, Digital humanities
• Figurative language, Socially unacceptable online and political discourse

Employment:

• Institute of Contemporary History (2023–)
• University of Ljubljana (2019–)
• Cergy Paris University (2022–2023)

Collaboration in research programmes and projects:

• DIHUR: Digital Humanities: Resources, Tools, Methods
• ARENAS: Analysis of and Responses to Extremist Narratives
• LiLaH: The linguistic landscape of hate speech on social media
• SSHOC: Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud

Awards:

• Teaching with CLARIN Award 2021

Fišer, D., & Pahor de Maiti, K. (2021). Voices of the Parliament: A Corpus Approach to Parliamentary Discourse Research. Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino. Ljubljana.

• Teaching with CLARIN Award 2022

Pretnar Žagar, A., Pahor de Maiti, K., & Fišer, D. (2022). What’s on the agenda? : Topic modelling parliamentary debates before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino. Ljubljana.

Selected publications:

• Pahor de Maiti, K., Franza, J., & Fišer, D. (2023). Haters in the spotlight: Gender and socially unacceptable Facebook comments. Internet Pragmatics, 1-24.
• Lenardič, J., & Pahor de Maiti, K. (2023). Grammatical and pragmatic aspects of Slovenian modality in socially unacceptable Facebook comments. Slovenščina 2.0: Empirične, aplikativne in interdisciplinarne raziskave, 11(1), 33-68.
• Pahor de Maiti, K., Franza, J., & Fišer, D. (2023). Linguistic markers of affect and the gender dimension in online hate speech. V I. Ermida (ur.), Hate speech in social media: Linguistic approaches (str. 369-396). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Pahor de Maiti, K., Fišer, D., & Ljubešić, N. (2020). Nonstandard linguistic features of Slovene socially unacceptable discourse on Facebook. V D. Fišer & P. Smith (ur.), The dark side of digital platforms: Linguistic investigations of socially unacceptable online discourse practices (str. 12-34). Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba, Filozofska fakulteta.
• Pahor de Maiti, K., & Fišer, D. (2021). Working with socially unacceptable discourse online: Researchers’ perspective on distressing data. V I. Hendrickx, L. Verheijen, & L. van de Wijngaert (ur.), Proceedings of the 8th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora2021) (str. 78-82). Nijmegen: Univerza Radboud.